The Senate has passed a bill making Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) the U.S.'s largest interior law enforcement agency with funding for Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda higher than most of the world’s militaries, including Israel’s.

Pending its passage in the House of Representatives, Trump’s bill could mean a massive increase in ICE funding as part of an immigration enforcement agenda worth $150 billion over four years.

This figure is more than the annual military budget of Italy, which at $30.8 billion, is the world’s 16th highest defense spender for this year according to tracker Global Fire Power.

It is also higher than military spending for Israel, ($30 billion), the Netherlands ($27 billion) and Brazil ($26.1 billion).

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      9 hours ago

      I worded what I said to account for small things like that by saying I haven’t contributed to the economy in any meaningful way. I see you want to play little games about it so I guess I’ll have to explain that that part of my statement was to mean things such as loans, stock market, and not spending expendable income. If you want to play the game of scrutinizing though then fuck off